Emergency preparedness - Apartment Prepper

Pest Control – a Necessary Part of your Prepping Efforts

April 17, 2012 aptprepper Apartment Living, Emergency Preparedness, Pest Control

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com Pest control is not probably not one of the top ten survival and preparedness steps you will take to get started but it

Readers’ Entries Part 2: A Variety of Tips for Prepping in an Apartment

March 30, 2012 aptprepper Apartment Living, Apartment Prepper, Apartment Prepping, Apartment Security, Emergency Preparedness

Here is the final set of miscellaneous readers’ tips. I had grouped the Storage Tips in the previous installment; these cover everything else. There were a wide variety of topics;

Ten Fast Track Tips for the Single Apartment Prepper

February 24, 2012 aptprepper Apartment Living, Apartment Prepper, Apartment Prepping, Apartment Security, Beginner prepping, Emergency Preparedness, Uncategorized

While most of our articles discuss family preparedness, we’d like to offer tips for apartment dwellers who live by themselves and would like to get started in preparedness. Once you decide to prepare, don’t hesitate or feel intimidated, just do it.

A Jolt that Shook Things Up

December 8, 2011 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Power failure, Preparedness, Solar Battery charger

We had a rain storm a few days ago which caused some flooding and a number of accidents on the roadways. I delayed driving in to work, as I heard

Feast or Famine

November 30, 2011 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Preparedness, Recession, Uncategorized

After all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales activity, it seems there was a lot of optimism about people being willing to open their pocketbooks and spend their money.

Shoppers Turning into Savages over a Sale

November 25, 2011 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Family Preparedness

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com It seems that every Black Friday there is some incident that leaves me wondering how people can go wild and out of control

The Fine Line between Redundancy and Clutter

November 2, 2011 aptprepper Apartment Living, Avoiding Waste, Beginner prepping, Emergency Preparedness

“Two is one and one is none” is a survival maxim that we picked up early on when we started finding out about preparedness. The saying applies to keeping a

Prepare for a Power Outage

November 1, 2011 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Power failure, Power Outage, Power Outage supplies, Survival

This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com As I write this post, 1.6 million people are still without electricity in the Northeast, due to an unseasonable winter storm. A fierce

Prep for Now and Not Just for Later

September 19, 2011 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, First Aid, First Aid supplies, Preparedness, Uncategorized

Last night I had a jolting reminder about preparedness. On the previous day, we restocked our water and toilet paper storage, so I felt comfortable we were keeping up with

Survival Mindset: Trust your Gut

September 3, 2011 aptprepper Emergency Preparedness, Preparedness, Preparedness Mindset

One of the fascinating stories that came out of the recent East Coast earthquake was how the animals in the National Zoo in Washington seemed to sense danger. Five to